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white house chief counsel alberto gonzalez who's said to have signed off on the details day-by-day.in private practice. he teaches courses in, well, the constitution and separation of powers. because irony. as for the cia lawyers who initiated all of that authorization of torture, one just wrote a book about his 30 years doing legal work at the cia. some of the others are still at the cia. some are defending the aftermath of these activities during the bush era. it's that aftermath the senate intelligence committee is seeking to unravel. this past tuesday, that's when we saw on the senate floor that long, detailed and sharply critical speech from the normally cia friendly chair, the senate intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein. she held the floor for 40 minutes and admonished the cia. for literally trying to cover up the activities. she accused the cia as going as far as illegally monitoring and spying on congress to keep information out of the committee's hands. that's what rachel called death of the republic type stuff. she accused one cia lawyer specifically, a lawyer

in a letter to the idaho senate delegation in 2003, then-white house counsel alberto gonzalez stated -- "i also want to make sure the president's commitment to nominate an idaho indiana for the ninth circuit seat if judge trott retires or assumes senior status while president bush is still in office." idaho has had two ninth circuit seats for more than a decade, and that allotment is appropriate. as such, when judge trott did take senior status the following year, president bush nominated judge randy smith of idaho to the trott seat. at the same time, another nominee was pending in the senate to fill a vacancy on the other idaho seat on the ninth circuit. regrettably, senate democrats used the long-standing senate rules that were available at that time to block the confirmation of both idaho nominees. the reason given by the california delegation for blocking the randy smith nomination to the trott seat made clear that the objections had nothing to do with judge smith's qualifications and that they were willing to support his confirmation to the other idaho seat. the nelson seat, whi